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Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist
| “ | I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. | ” |
| “ | If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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| “ | Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. | ” |
| “ | I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855) | ” |
| “ | If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675 | ” |
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